The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

Richard Gere (born Richard Tiffany Gere in 1949) is an American actor and humanitarian activist and is also the former husband of models Cindy Crawford and Carey Lowell. Many of this brilliant actor’s ...

PLYMOUTH — New England Historic Genealogical Society has partnered with General Society of Mayflower Descendants to bring genealogical resources to their members ...

As you carve the turkey today and look around the table at your loved ones, there are important lessons you can teach both young and old about our American Thanksgiving holiday. When the Pilgrims ...

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It was a happy coronavirus quarantine surprise that reached all the way back to one of the ships that brought pilgrim settlers to America. A 97-year-old resident of a West Chester Twp. recently ...

BOSTON (CBS/AP) — The number of people trying to determine whether they are descended from a Mayflower passenger is surging as the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival in the New World ...

In 1620, the Wompanoag — the People of the First Light — already knew that their land was a land of plenty. But for Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims who dropped anchor in Provincetown on ...

You’re crammed in a room, shoulder-to-shoulder with 100 other passengers. It’s dark. It smells. It’s wet and very cold. There’s no privacy. No bathrooms. Your meals are pitiful — salted meat and a ...

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The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...